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BL
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1014423
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b768793
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| Main Entry
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Thomas, Alfred,1958-
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| Title & Author
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Prague palimpsest : : writing, memory, and the city /\ Alfred Thomas.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (xv, 204 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0226795411
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: 9780226795416
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0226795403
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9780226795409
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Women on the verge of history: Libuše and the foundational legend of Prague -- Deviant monsters and wayward women: the Prague ghetto and the legend of the golem -- The castle hill was hidden: Franz Kafka and Czech literature -- A stranger in Prague: writing and the politics of identity in Apollinaire, Nezval, and Camus -- Sailing to Bohemia: utopia, memory, and the Holocaust in postwar Austrian and German literature -- Epilogue: Postmodern Prague?
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| Abstract
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Envisioning Prague as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised & rewritten, Alfred Thomas argues that it has become a paradoxical site of inscription & effacement, of memory & forgetting, a utopian link to the pre-war & pre-Holocaust European past & a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia.
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Golem.
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Jewish ghettos-- Czech Republic, Legends.
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Legends-- Czech Republic-- Prague.
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Libuše (Legendary character)
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Golem.
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Jewish ghettos.
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Legends.
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Libuše (Legendary character)
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Literature.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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Prague (Czech Republic), In literature.
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Czech Republic, Prague.
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Czech Republic.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.9335843712
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PN56.3.P73T46 2010eb
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